Hi,

I'll answer this myself:)

When the agent is starting a JBoss process it does NOT inherit the environment variables of the agent if the "Start Script Environment Variables" field in the Connection Settings options is not empty. And usually there is at least JAVA_HOME.

I would assume the LANG variable would be set by the shell anyway, but apparently RHEL non-login shell does not configure the locales.

So my solution was to include /etc/init.d/functions to the JBoss init script. This is included by most RHEL init scripts and it does define the LANG variable.

Cheers.

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:24:32 +0000 From: Jaromir Hamala jaromir.hamala@gmail.com To: rhq-users@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: RHQ operations vs. locales Message-ID: < CAMxXA6-_86e2Oo3CmG24EX_3a0gFCMKUugv-nKXK7L_Z2rVi-w@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hello,

I have a RHQ 4.4 with a bunch of JBoss EAP 5.1 servers defined.

My OS (RHEL 5.6) has default locale set as en_GB.UTF-8, but when I start the JBoss via RHQ it ignores it and the environment does not contain LANG variable and therefore default charset of the JBoss JVM is not UTF-8.

Is there a way how to force RHQ to respect default locale of the platform? I could not find any settings/option for this. I could change the JBoss start scripts and set the locale explicitly, but I would rather avoid this and use the locale of the platform.

Thank you for any advice, Jaromir